Attention SEO’s: Add Authorship Back to Your Pages

Google says “jump” and we ask, “how high?” It’s official, as of today Google is re-recommending to add authorship markup back to your pages!

Today at SMX East in NYC Garry Illyes from Google told everyone to keep authorship markup in your source code. In 2014 Google (via John Mueller) removed support for authorship which shook the SEO community in a number of different ways. Most SEO’s and webmasters have removed this markup from their websites.

Google even removed support for authorship (screenshot taken October 1, 2015) and says that it is “no longer supported in web search” according to their documentation.

In case you need a refresher, adding authorship to your website is as simple as adding a tag to the <head> of your website. Just add

Patrick Coombe is the founder and CEO of Elite Strategies Llc. Patrick takes a hands on approach to managing Elite Strategies and loves to get involved with technical projects relating to clients inbound marketing needs.